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Congress." Bat the necessities oi
the Republican party spoke thus:
" If these Stated are treated as be-ing
in the Union, and if their Sena-tors
and Representative* are ad-mitted
into Congress from govern-ments
of their own formation, they
will add so much strength to the
Democratic party that there is
danger of their seizing the govern
ment and ousting us from power.''
Tlins the organic law of the land
and the necessities of a party were
at. war. Without hesitation" party
good was preferred, and the Con-stitution
went down. We were
treated as outside of the Union.—
Our State government was over-turned;
every civil officer, irom
the chief magistrate to the humblest
conservator of the peace was de-posed,
and for many months we
were absolutely without law—for
the absurd term " martial law"
means only the will of the com
mander of troops. Test oaths de-feated
our free representation in
Congress, and many penalties at-tached
to treason were visited upon
ns without the forms of a trial and
conviction which indeed might have
been a hazardous proceeding as the
Supreme Court was still somewhat
sensitive to the legal opinions of
the world. In the name of
the Union we were thrust out of
the Union; in the name of the
Constitution we were denied all
protection of the Constitution. In
this manner we existed until it
pleased the President of the United
States to restore ns to the Union,
deprived ot many of our rights, and
stripped of much of our legal pow-er.
But even this poor contrivance
of a poorer statemanship was not
sufficient for onr adversaries, inas-much
as it gave us a semblance of
Constitutional protection and left
our State government still iu the
hands of our legal and native boru
citizens who stubbornly refused to
affiliate with the dominant party.—
After due consideration the Repub-lican
party in Congress undertook
a second reconstruction, on its own
terms—certain amendments to the
Constitution having been adopted
by the aid of the States to lie re
constructed, then were enacted the
series of " reconstruction acts'' ac-knowledged
by their principal ad-vocates
to be outside of the Con-stitution
; again was the Union dis
solved; a second time were we
thrust out; once more were we sub-jected
to the government of the
bayonet: new qualifications of suf-frage
were established, new rules
of disfranchisement were imposed,
and the extraordinary spectacle was
exhibited to the world of a Consti
tution being foisted npon a free
people of one of the free American
States by the illegal suffrage of
some, aided by the illegal disfrau-ohisement
ot others, and all super-intended
and controlled by the
j bayonets of strangers ! By this
i burlesque upon law and free govern-ment,
the political character of the
Southern States was made to ac-cord,
perforce, with that ot the
dominant party ; and holding the
check of political disabilities upon
the leadiug men of their opponents
in their own hands, they fancied
they had secured to themselves a
long lease of power. The danger
being thus happily averted from
their party, and the Stale govern-ments
of the South having been
ot September, 1862, the send time! placed in the hands of their own
For the Patriot. '
The Snow Storm.
BY WHO t
The earth is frozen hard and deep
And the north-wind goes hissing
O'er bill and dale, with mighty aw
The billows tossing to the sky.
The heavens wear a aonihre hne.
That thicker grows and darker I
As the soft auow whirls out to Tit
And soon upon the earth is oast
"Tis beautiful—the falling snow-
As it descends BO pure and whi
A mantle robe for all below,
More radiaut than the dazzling '*
Hut see! the prattling rills are d;
Fast fettarail by an icy chain,
And can no longer onward run,
Leaping with joy unto the Bail
And hark! croueh'd ahiT'ring acu
thorne;
The hints sit chirping all the da
As if praying the piercing storm
In metcy soon would pass awa>
But heedless quite, it lushes on,
Striving hard to increase its ra
And show to all its bitter scorn,
That uonc may try its wrath t<a8a-
All living tilings for shelter flae,
before the rushing tempest's b
That shakes the earth anil rocks ™a,
And blows as if 'twould blow »st>
But rage, and howl, and spit yi 'pite,
And do your utmost to destroi
The weak can well defy the mig
If God for them His power emV-Soon
piercing through the ch shall
shina
The sun, and with his genial .: •
Unbind the brooks, and make ti ouiuie
Liko marriage bells, as on tlili"w-
The bine bird, rohbiu and the Wi
Ttio first sweet messengers otTing,
Will come again where they ha <•''"•
And feed with joy, aud build 1 sing.
Then too the trees in living (ret
Will pat new robes of glory
And every v\ hero sweet llow'ra l/e"
To cheer the earth that they rn.
Aud gambling flocks, and lowii'id,
Shall thickly crowd each gra mead ;
And show how deep their heart-' stirr'd,
As all in love together feed.
Why then despond, ordoubt, oar,
Though all be dark and drea thout ?
A blighter day will yet appeal
And time shall bring the ch; about.
Tis wine to keep Iht future fu
Of strong, bright faith aud ai t hope ;
When all seems sad, and bleak 1 dull,
And we our way through darl -s grope.
Tis right aud brave to pertevt
Aud keep moving, though it slow,
For day will dawn and light a ur,
ire w inter storms shall 001:0 more!
naugural Address
Z. B. Vance.
Hon,
LAWKS AND FELLOW CITNS:
There is retributiou in ltory.—
For all the wrongs and iunalities
of individual and natiul life,
there is compensation pi ided it
we do but patiently awaits com-iug.
Twice before this I ik the
oaths of office as Governor North
Carolina: the first time ot he Sth
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D. A. & R. F. ROBERTSON,
ION DENTISTS,
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on the 1st day of January. SOL—
I was not permitted to are out
my last allotted term. \.r was
then raging in the land id the
star of the Confederacy wa.iready
paling towards its final obs ration.
In April, 1865, the second id last
remaining great army of t. Con-federate
States suneaded at
Greeusboro aud the hardly ontest-, .
ed struggle ol the Souther people i agreed to abide in good faith,
creatures, some of whom were even
provided with self-perpetuating
pow.-rs called "returning boards."'
it was thought sale to re-admit
these States to the American Union
on terms ot so-called perfect and
absolute equality.
All of this we submitted to alter
unavailing protest, and by all of
these, things we have solemnly
for
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IND PEBFUMEBT,
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was ended. We then foud our '■
selves iii a peculiar cond.on, at-tributable
in a great nn-ast to the !
complex nature of the mtrnment
under which wo live. Tb: strug- j
gle was the result of thso uion ol j
the Southern people of th r right 1
to withdraw from the I ion by j
State action; it was inn .-mated
by ordinances of secession:iid was j
maintained by arms.]; was]
throughout au attempt, t escape
from the American Union ;■ estab-lished
by the Constitution When
that escape was preveute.by the
advene results of the war', natur-ally
supposed we were st: in the
Union and subject to the 1 institu-tion.
True, accordiug to tie theory
of our adversaries, indivi. als en
gaged in the so-called rcbi ion had
incurred the penalties ot treason,
lint it had occurred to no iiwyer to
suppose that the States composing
the Conlederacy had forfe:ed their
position as members of the Union,
or that they had acquired ijy defeat
the very object they had Bongbt to
attain by success. It was therefore
admitted by the undisputed logic
of all parties, that the insurgent
States were still at the close, as Bt
the beginning of the war, is the
Union,controlled by the Constito
tion, bound by all its obligations
and entitled to all its protections.—
In tact we were termed traitors by
reason of, and only by reason of,
the provisions of that instrument;
and but lor the fact that, us was
said, we owed an obedience to it,
which we could in nowise avoid by
secession, no one could have had
the hardihood to venture on the use
"f such a term toward us. Rut
when the war ended successfully
the sake ot peace in order that the
land may have rest. We were not,
too, without a reasonable hope that,
having done all which was required
of ns, and concurred in amending
the fundamental law in such a man
ner as the victors thought necessary
to secure all the results of the war,
we might have a return to strict
and exact Constitutional govern
ment, and putting behind us—as
we certainly were disposed to do—
the irregularities and bitter mem-ories
of the past, look forward to
better times in the future. Bitterly
were we deceived in that fond hope.
From that day to the present, the
armed hand of the Federal (JOT
ernment has never ceased to inter-fere,
or threaten to interfere, in the
domestic concerns of the Southern
were declared duly elected by the
supreme judicial tribunal of that
State ! Nor was this the first time
that this great outrage upon liberty
and law had been committed. This
may be preserving the public peace,
but it looks vastly more like a de-liberate
attempt to goad brave men
to declaration in order to shed
their blood, as well as to rob them
of their liberties. The real dis-turbers
of the peace in South Car
olina are the President and his
advisers; the real preservers of
the peace are the noble and chival-rous
Hampton and his long suffer-ing
and admiring countrymen.
There is not an honest man in
America to day but believes this.
Such are the results which have
flowed naturally from predeter-mined
violations of the constitu
tion, and the unwarranted assump
tion of power by the military arm.
Nor have these been the only, it
the worst, fruits of these depart-ures
from the legal paths. By this
unnatural process and schemes of
reconstruction, North Carolina was
placed in the hands of the design
ing and iguorant of onr people,
organized and led on by unscrupu-lous
and disreputable adventurers
from the slums of northern politics ;
a base and cormorant tribe of rep-tiles,
which seem to spring like
fungi from the rottenness and cor-ruption
of revolutionary times.—
The story of their short lived but
evil reign, of how they bankrupted
the State in character and means,
of how they overturned our time-honored
institutions, persecuted de-cency,
outlawed honor honesty, and
established fraud as a thing to be
worshipped in their stead, and how
they rioted in the tiampliug down
of "the most revered traditions of
our people, is one too well known
to be repeated here. Thank God,
it is ended at last! So far as North
Carolina is concerned, that role of
corruption aud calamity is num-bered
with the past, the lost and
damned ! At first the column of
true men which assaulted it was a
small and dispirited one. Not only
were the enemy strongly entrenched
behind the constitution and laws
of their own making and interpre-ting,
but the gigantic shadow of
federal power stood between them
and the righteous wrath of an op-pressed
people. By a dishonest
use of the sacred name of tin-
American Union, and by skillful
appeals to the prejudices excited
by war, they secured a large and
respectable following of many who
were not privy to their wicked de-signs
: numerous others were
tempted to join their ranks by the
blandishments of office and public
money, which was modestly des-ignated
"Accepting the situation."
But there was a remnant who bow
ed not the knee to Baal; there
were a few names left iu Sardis
who did not defile their garments.
Incessantly and courageously they
charged npon the enemy. On
every assnlt their spirits increased.
One by one, corrupt leaders fell or
fled : one by one, abuses were ex-posed
and remedied : one by one,
the different branches of the gov
ernment were torn from their con-trol
; now it was the legislature ;
now it was the representation in
Congress ; now a portion of the
judiciary ; whilst ever and anon a
corrupt county government would
be seized and overturned. To show
how the cause of right and justice
grew, in 18(53 we could give to our
candidate tor governor, Thomas S.
Lshe, one of our best and purest
men, but 73,694 votes: in 1872 we
gave Judge Merrimou 116,700 votes,
finally the day of great and decis
ive battle came. Aud I confess
that the proudest day in the history
of my life was the one on which I
was almost unanimously chosen as
the leader of the people of my na
tive state in that great light. A
majestic spectacle was presented
in the making ready. The mighty
host in battlo array, stretched from
where the restless waves of the
eastern sea beat their everlasting
retrain upon the white sanded shore
of Hatteras westward to where the
rugged Alpine peaks of the grand
old Alleghanies look down into the
chambers of the setting sun. Un-der
the pines of the. eastern plains,
beneath the oaks of the rolling mid-lands,
across the hills of Dan, in the
vallevs of the Yadkin, Catawba,
Broad and Cape Fear, on the sides
and summits of the mountains and
upon all their highland passes, they
stood. Like our German ancestors
the whole people went out to battle
the light ot subsequent history.— low violations of the laws of nature
But I was not ouly assailed with j All corruption, civil convulsion
BEWS5T.5 =a7=S5a -.!..~ -«•• -ftj-extraordinary
harshness and injus-tice
for what I did, but bitterly and
falsely for what I did not. The pro-lific
sources ol malevolence and
slander were exhausted in defaming
me. In response thereto the people
of the state, whose cause I served
and whose honor I upheld, have
sard by twenty-seven thousand
more votes tbau was ever before
that time ever cast for any man iu
our poli'ical history—not that every
thing I did was right, but that in
all things I faithfully performed
and endeavored to perform the du-ties
which they bad imposed upon
me. I hope my enemies are satis
fied with the verdict. Quite certaru
it is that I am. For the victory is
not only great, but was won by one
of the lairest, best matured aud
most peaceful elections ever held
iu our state or any other state. And
now cheered by this maguillcent
endorsement, I for the third time
enter npon the high duties assigued
by the constitution and laws of
North Carolina to her chief magis-trate.
In assuming once more the gov-ernment
of our native state, we are
reminded that with power there
comes responsibility. The deep
wouuds which the last fifteen years
of war and misgovcrnmeut have m-flicted
upon us still gape unhealed.
Our public credit has been almost
entirely destroyed ; our wealth has
been swept away; our educational
fund has been lost; unpatriotic
partisau statesmanship has iucreas
ed and embittered sectional feeling ;
and worse, perhaps, than all, the
raees composing our people, have
been set at enmity against each
other. Though it is is almost twelve
years since the war closed little has
been done by tho dominant party
to heal the jealousies of late ene-mies,
or to reconcile the antagonism
of the white and black races. Much
tudeed, on the contrary, has been
done to aggravate both evils. So
far as in ns lies, it is our bonnden
duty to remedy these things: to re-store
our public, credit, to promote
the regaiulng of our wealth, to edu-cate
the children of the state, to
mitigate sectional and race auimos
ities. In au especial manner should
it be our duty to disabuse the
minds of our black citizens of the
false impressions which unscrupu-lous
demagogues have instilled in-to
them that we intend, iu any way
to interfere with their chartered
rights. Let us convince them by
liberal legislation and kind treat-ment,
that we not only intend them
no wrong, but that we earnestly de-sire
their prosperity arid happiness;
that we constitute the party in this
government which, par excellence,
maintains and observes the consti
tution upon which their rights de-pend
: that their former owners are
and naturally should be, their best
friends; that as men of Christian
affections we never can forget Un-kindly
friendships which were form
ed between master and servant, be-tween
jealous protection and faith-ful
service; and finally that as men
of chivalry and honor we acorn to
deceive or oppress them because
they are weaker in numbers and
intelligence than we are. Their in-strumentality
in our oppression has
not been so much their fault as the
fault of those who controlled and
directed them. Let this fact never
be forgotten; that they served us.
they served our fathers and grand-fathers,
with fidelity and patience
always, and, for the most par', not
an unwilling slaves serve bated task
masters, but as humble friends and
dependents serve those whom they
love. When war was rampant over
the land and nearly all our able-bodied
men were absent in the ar-niv,
within the hearing of the
very guns which were roaring to
set* ihem free, the great body of
them remained quietly a: home, la-boring
iu our fields, supporting and
oaring for our women, children and
non combatants, with an affection
ate fidelity rarely surpassed by any
race. So, too, since their emanci-pation,
nine, out often of the mis
deeds committed by the blacks
against the whites can, in my opin-ion,
be traced to the instigation of
scoundrels of our owu color. They
have mostly done evil because they
were in evil bands. I firmly believe
that every semblance of personal
hostility toward the negro will pass
away, when hie almost unanimous
political hostility toward tho whites
shall have passed away. A wise
statesmanship already recognizes
him, under favorable cirenm
places them within our reach, and
renders it possible for them to be
acquired by those who seek them
with energy, industry and integri-ty.
These, when properly protected
will build up again the walls of our
political Zion. Above all, let ns
learn to use our great vietory with
moderation and justice, and strive
to wield the power which is this
day given us, as those who must
render BO account, both here and
hereafter.
the Republican party was thought
t:> be in danger. The excuse tor
this unconstitutional action is the
miserable pretence of preserving
the public peace.
It is a matter of decision by the
Supreme Court that the national
government cannot exercise mere
police power in the States : it is a
matter of history that there has
been no considerable breach of the
peace in any part of the country
except iu that which was ruled by
tho execrable creatures who were
Disced in power there by the aid of
the federal government; that when-ever
the reconstructed States have
thrown off this alien control there
is not the shadow of violence or
discord ; that the only semblance
of pretended discord existing in
any ol them, on which is founded
the President's excuse for the use
of soldiorv, is iu those three States
f"r the North, the situation became which alone remain governed by
embarrassing to our adversaries.—
ihe Union and the Constitution
DRUG TORE,
Merchant and
Ir line
' taper, Than
' V rlh and
1 bey cannot be
rtlMUIumt.
•HtM A CALL!
uion (be
which lm,i furnished such excellent
, battle cries in the day of strife,
were now decidedly in the way.—
The Constitution said: " These
States arc members of the Union ;
they did not get out, and indeed
could not, whilst my provisions
were observed; and being where
they always were, they are entitled
immediately to reform their own
governments and to send Senators
, aud Representatives to the national
the wives and maidens of the Oher-usci,
standing behind our array to
drive lorward the laggard and en
courage the timid, ready both to re-joice
iu our triumph and to inspire
hope in our despair. In these ranks
stood white haired age, sturdy man-hood
and lusty youth, the wisest,
best and bra\est out of a million
people. IIow could manhood go
backwards iu such a presence! No
campaign, perhaps, in our political
annals was fought with such anlent
ank universal enthusiasm. The zeal
of the people mounted up to a holy
sublimity. The stake was public
honesty and constitutional liberty.
That banner which by your com-mand,
my countrjmen, inscribed
with these sacred emblems. I bore
in trout of that host, sustained by
uiv able and gallant colleagues, has
been blessed by the most signal
victory ever achieved in our state.
The average vote for onr ticket is
about 123,500; so rapidly have the
triends of right increased. 1 win
not affect to deny that I am person-ally
gratified in an especial manner
by the result, to which I may be
pardoned for allnding. I or near y
Three years I was your governor in
the midst of the civil war
uuiwarK ui mv ~.».».
Labor, though it be never so igno
ant, if it be closely allied tocapit.
is not unfrequently the real strengt
Btances,an element not only of pub
lie wealth but of conservative pow
er in politics which may become a
cherished bulwark of the south.—
trnor-al
gth
of society. It also becomes onr es-pecial
dutv to look after the rights
and liberties of the people, without
which all material interests are as
the small dust in the balance. I oor
as we are we would be poorer still
if we had more wealth and less ol
libertv. The freedom and integrity
ot elections constitute the very cor-ner
stone of our representative gov
to be
and degeneracy, How naturally
from a failure on the part of a State
to observe the laws of its being,
jnst as heresies flow from a non-observance
of the text of the Script-ures.
This is the certain source of
all the confusion and threatened
evils that now distract the land.—
There is uo plainer er more import-ant
principle in our Constitutional
policy thau that of the right of the
States to control aud regulate their
owu domestic affairs within their
own borders; and this principle
has been selected for the most re-peated
aud persistent attack, be-cause
it is the great and almost only
barrier to centralization.
Its violation is also the parent of
nearly every dangerwhich threatens
the individual liberties of the citi-zeus.
For be it remembered that
uo power in this Union has ever
successfully defied the law and the
courts except Federal power; and
no power has ever attempted it ex-cept
when incited thereto and up-held
by Federal power. So long,
aud only so long, as the States are
left in the undisturbed exercise of
this domestic sovereignty, can the
public peace arid public freedom be
preserved. The governments of
the three States of South Carolina,
Florida and Louisiana, are now in
possession of men who were put
there by the unwarranted interfer-ence
of the central government;
they have been kept in power by
the same hand, in defiance of the
will ol the citizens; they consider
themselves responsible, not to the
people over whom they rule, but to
the real authors ot their power at
Washington. In every difficulty
they appeal not to their constituents
as in representative government,
but to a distant and alien tribunal.
They are mostly men of evil reputa-tion,
and honest people everywhere
look at their best deeds with justi-fiable
suspicion. Now it so hap-pens,
thai upon the electoral votes
of these three States depends the
choice of a chief magistrate for
over forty millions of people; prirnar
facie, a very decided majority for
the electors of Samuel J. Tilden
and Thomas A Ileudricks has been
given iu Florida, and a large ma-jority
of many thousands in Louisi-ana.
The returning boards of these
disputed States are tbe creatures
ol these federal-appointed State
governments. They owed fealty
not to the people, but to the powers
at Washington. Their duty was
to return the Republican electors
as duly elected. Mauy of them
were themselves candidates on the
same ticket, but they properly con-cluded
that modesty should not re-strain
them if honesty did not.—
By throwing out votes on the pre-tence
of fraud aud intimidation,
they created a majority for their
party electors and themselves. In
South Carolina, whilst there is
strong reason to believe that at
least iv part of the democratic elect-ors
have been chosen, and such was
loudly claimed to be the fact, an at-tempt
to investigate the matter by
a judicial inquiry was emothered
by fi deral bayonets. The returning
hoard refusing to obey the mandate
of the Supreme Court, its members
were imprisoned. Immedi-ately
a partisan Federal Judge
appeals upon the scene arid releases
these culprits, .vhilst some invisible
hand furnishes the money to pay
their lines. Grave charges of cor-ruption
and fraud are made against
all these returning boards, and it
is sale to say that the honest men
of the nation are not satisfied that
the thing was fairly done. Univer-sal
discontent prevails, and the
peace of thecouutry is endangered.
Tin- (pi.s1 ion simply comes to this :
it Mr. Tilden and Mr. Ileudricks
are fairly and honestly elected, shall
tbe will of tbe majority prevail, or
shall federal interference prevail I
Shall the Constitution and the laws
rule, or shall the Republican party-rule!
Shall the people elect a
President, or shall the praetorian
cohorts appoint an emperor! For
if our votes are thrown out of the
ballot boxes by interested partisan
returning boards, incited and sus-tained
by federal soldiers this time,
who shall say it will not be done
ni x; time, and for all time ! If so,
why go to the polls at all! Why
mock the hopes of freedom by
swearing onr officers to support an
instrument which is iu fact dead or
obsolete 1 I have said this much
in regard to this matter, because I
conceive our situation to be critical
in the extreme. Our only reliauce
now is upon the moderation and
patriotism of Congress. If the rep
resentatives of the people aud of
I he -states, shall not be able to find
a peaceful and constitutional solu-tion
of the difficulty in which the
country finds itself, one of two
things"will happen; either the ma-jority
of the American peoplo will
quietly submit to a great wrong in-volving
the destruction of their
Constitution, or there will be a te-soi
t to violence. Let us look things
in the face. _
The circumstances of North Caro-lina,
as well as of the Southern
States generally, imperatively de-mand
that she "should not be for-in
our hearts. As the mouth-piece
of more than a million people, I be-lieve
I can with propriety say for
them that North Carolina may con-fidently
be relied upon to sustain
that portion of the people of the
United States which shall convince
us that it is struggling for tbe
constitution, tbe laws, and public
justice, whieh are the life and the
soul of the American Union.
Pearls. « —
The guardian angel of life some-times
flies so high that it can not
be fseen ; but ie always looking
down upon us, and will soon hover
nearer to as.
Affliction is the wholesome soil
of virtue, where patienoe, honor,
Qg , sweet humanity,And calm fortitude
the one band we do not wieh it to , ta^e root and strongly flourish,
be understood that we are ready or 1 f
T( J-.00 wo
l
uld be pungsnt,bs brief
willing to embark in revolution : I [0T n '• w'th wordR M wlth
J'nn'
nor ou the other that we are willing ! l*ams-ths more they are conden«
to quietly submit to any outrage i edLthe deePer the""
that physical force directed by par-1
ty zeal may see fit to impose ; tbe 1
one course tending to provoke vio-lence
aud the other to invite oppres
sion. We do wish it understood
that we will follow the lead of the
constitutional men of the north.—
Show us the law and it sufficeth us.
Law is, and in all ages has been,
tbe shield of tbe weak, tbe refuge
of the oppressed, the parent of lib-erty,
and national life. We earn
estly desire to stand by it. Tru
ly the constitution of our country is
the ark of the covenaut of our lib-erties,
which our forefathers made
for themselves and their children.
When it is properly enthroned in
the hearts of our people its preseuce
is a blessing arid a protection ; when
dishonored and put away calamity
and confusion inevitably ensue. Our
ouly possible safety is to bring it
back among us and re-establish its
altars. When the ark of the coven-ant
of the Lord was taken captive
from Israel into strange lands, it
overthrew the image of the false
god in whose temple it was placed,
and smote his worshippers round
about with a terrible slaughter.—
The priest of Dagon, to escape its
vengeance sent it away upon a new
cart, drawu by kine upon whose
necks no yoke had come, which YViio is the clerk that is of the
without any but the guidance of 1 most value to to his employer; the
the God whose covenant they bore, 0ne who will secure hightes't wages,
took the way of Beth-Shemisb, low- and retain his position when hard
ing as they went, aud turning j times come and some have to be
neither to the right hand nor to the dismissed! 1 will tell you who.
left. The harvesters in the valleys The clerk who is honest and truth
of Judah, pausing amidst their gol f,1|i aud is willing to take hold and
den sheaves, lifted up their eyes ,io anything in tho store to help
and rejoiced to see the approach of, along. The one who keeps his
that symbol of the preseuce and fa- stock np u the best shape, is gen-
Hearts may be attracted by as-sumed
qualities, but the affections
are only to be fixed by those that
are real.
Nature often enshrines gallant
and noble hearts in weak bosoms—
oftenest, God bless her ! in the fe-male
breast.
The blush is nature's alarm at the
approach of sin, and her testimony
to the dignity of virtue.
No one who holds the power of
granting aid to the worthy poor,can
refuse it without guilt.
For every sort of suffering, save
that of sin, there is sleep provided
by a gracious Providence.
A miser grows rich by seeming
poor ; an extravagant person grows
poor by seeming rich.
Men resemble the gods in noth-ing
so much as in doing good to
their fellow creatures.
Never marry but for love; bnt see
that thou lovest that which is lova-able.
What is becoming is honorable,
and what is honorable is becoming.
When anger rises, think ot the
consequences.
It is difficult to grow old grace
fully.
A Clerk.
vor of their God. And though it
journeyed in triumph through the
laud whose people received it with
hosannas, yet did many perish who
dared to lay rash and prorane hands
upon it.
With us in North Carolina,
though the national trouble is be-tlemauly
and polite to customers,
and by his faithfulness, honor and
integrity, draws new customers,
and thereby sells the most goods.
The one who takes a lively interest
in his employer's welfare, aud is
careful that nothing goes to waste.
The one who when customers are
vondour means of control, we can out is busy putting up goods and
at least see that the ark is kept at arrauging them in a neat aud tasty-home
and duly honored. In 1870 manner so that the store will look
liberty was assailed in North Caro pleasant and inviting. The one
liua, and tho ark was carried away w|,0 will wait ou a little child as
captive. Each branch of the state carefully and pleasantly as he will
government was consenting thereto; ou a president, and has a kind word
the legislature and the executive for all. The ono who loves his busi-by
direct and overt action, and the „m better than saloons. The oue
the judicial by uou action. But in wuo j8 temperate, and does not
due time Dagou was overturned, swear or use coarse and vulgarian
ernment. When, they cas,^ _. ^^^^ More than all
reconstruction-carpet baggers, and
whose electoral votes happen to be
necessary to secure the supremacy
of the republican party once more.
Within the last thirty days, the
world hps seen wonder and disgust,
the togidatureiof a matar SMte •^m^'of\ne"clvn war In that
assembled to find its capitol fllle tnem t ,,uty con.-
witfa Ueited States soldiers, and capacity per|0rmance of
sentinels with fixed bayonet,, guard- pe«Jd »«^°0B8 and unpleasan,
iugthedoorsof nslial ,wh.h a many gr^ rf ^
sergeant decided upon the qualifi
cations and election of members,
refusing admission to those who
, were, no
rinnht fairly open to hostile critt-im%
l£U when looked at in
perfectly fair and unforced,
shed and anarchy are near at hand.
We are now approaching a crisis in
the fate of this country winch all
honest men should honestly face.
No one, I presume, doubts the
maxim that to preserve the bless
ings of libertv we should have fre-quent
recurrence to the first prin-ciples
of our Constitution. They
are the embodiment of the wisdom
of our ancestors eliminated, tested
and approved by their experience
of many hundreds of years. So
well have thev become established
as the organic law of politics, and
so perfectly do they indicate the
normal condition of a free State.
that any departure therefrom is
followed, sooner or later, by results
things else, except good govern-
, we need peace. In common
with the Constitutional party in the
North, we think we have fairly
elected our candidate for President.
Upon that party and not upon our
selves devolves the propriety aud
the doty of taking tho needed steps
toward'seenring the rights of the
majority. But let it not be sup
posed that we are indifferent to
their action, or decliue to come to
the front because less entitled to do
so than others.
I Blasted as we have been by the
desolation of war; purged of rash
DOBS by the fires of revolution, and
sobered both by public calamity
and private sorrow as wehave been,
the people rose as the waves of the
sea rise before the tempest, and
brought back their ark with tri-umph
arid rejoicing. Law once
more reigned in North Carolina,
and only the stump of Dagon was
left unto him. And whither should
the kine draw the ark of the peo-ple's
liberty if not into the borders
ol North Carolina, " a fortress form-ed
for freedom'!) hands." Where
should the geuius of liberty guide
them if not here ! It was on the
soil of North Carolina that the foot
of the first English colonist was
planted in America, aud the soli-tudes
ot her forests first of all heard
the glorious tongue of Shakepeare
aud of Milton ; it was in NorMi Car-that
tbe first blood was shed in be-half
of American liberty ; it was in
North Carolina that the firbt decla-ration
of independence was promul-gated
against the power of the Brit-ish
Empire; North Carolina's pro
vincial congress, first of all, in-structed
her delegates to unite iu a
national declaration of indepen-dence
: it was North Carolina who
with oue other state to essist her,
refused to agree to a provision in
the American constitution permit-ting
Cougress in any emergency to
suspend the privileges of the great
writ of human liberty ; it was in
North Carolina, aud I believe only
in North Carolina, that in the mid«t
of the greatest civil war of modern
times, when forty millions of peo-ple
were engaged in desperate
strife, amid the gleaming ot bayo-nets,
the roaring of cannon, the
thunder of charging squadrons and
the light of bnruing cities, the civil
power maintained its supremacy
over the military, the judge was
obeyed. Inter arma audiebantur
leges.
North Carolina of to-day is the
lineal decendant of the North Caro-lina
of the past. Her sons and
daughters are the legitimate heirs
of this glorious heritage. With
such a record I think all who sturg-gle
for liberty and law throughout
the American Union may rest well
assured of the sympathy and sup
port of North Carolina.
Having briefly glanced at the po-litical
condition of our state and her
relations to the federai government
—which at present have such an
absorbing interest for as all—I will
defer speaking of our material
home interest and the many sug-gestions
I shall desire to make con-cerning
our domestic welfare, until
I shall have the honor of officially
communicating with the general as-sembly.
In conclusion, my countrymen
guage. I tell you sueh a clerk is a
jewel, and uot have to spend his
time hunting for a uew situation
every year. We want such clerks ;
railroads companies want them ; re-tail
stores and everybody who has
to hire wants them, and the supply
of this kind will never be iu excess
ot the demaud.
It is very certain that in Wash-ington
a powerful reaction has ta
ken place. The revolutionists and
conspirators are still plotting and
cursing, but the sober, thoughtful
men of the. Republican party have
come to the conclusion that it is
about time for Grant, (.'handler,
Cameron & Co. to halt. The ITet
aid ou the litltl inst. telegraphed the
inquiry to its Washington corres
poiideuts " What means the Radical
paniral WtukingUmV The reply
given by the Washington I'nion is
this:
"AM hope and scheme oi illegal,
unconstitutional method have fail-ed
and are abandoned. The Herald
haj contributed to the true, legal,
honest result now beyond doubt.
Mi. Bennett may have patriotic
satisfaction iu it, and in this one
assurance to him, that the'•Radical
panic"' he has hear of is simply the
resolutiou of the able anil patriotic
and honest leaders of the Republi-can
party to accept the situation to
defeud the Constitution, to bear
true allegiauce to the Republic."--
Wilminyton Star.
The Chicago Inter-Oveah is a fair
specimen sheet 0 f Northwestern
Radicalism. It would afford, no
doubt, the editors ol that very de-testable
sheet the most exquisite
satisfaction to ^-e every dei 1 ntman
and woman i n the South either
burned, hanged or murdered. Read
this:
'Uaugiug a few traitors and re-solving
tho Southern States into
territories agaiu until such time as
their white liners, bulldozers and
rille clubs are repudiated, would be
judicious steps toward a lasting
peace." __^___^^^^
A wise ruler is better than a race
horse; the latter makes good time j
the former, good times.
An Irish monk once called on his
congregation to thank God that
death had been placed at the end
of life insteail of the middle.
Whore should one always expect
to find a bountiful supply of the
milk of human kindness ! Withiu
permit me to express how heartily i the pale of Odd Fellowship.
,1 man fond of antitheses says
;sjs8;;swbS ^^0.». -ove * »»«
I participate in the general joy
which this aupicious occasion in-spires.
I humbly trust in God that
this day, which is so proud a one
for us all, may prove the beginning
of a happier and a better one for
our people. Thanking Him sincer
ely t'oi His mercies towards us,
us take courage to work out
fruition of our pleasing hopes.
Let us remember that good gov- Hitch up beauty and virtue to-ernment
confers not of itself wealth gether and you have the best Mam
prosperity aud happiness, but only , in the world.
rather than a cot iu the valley be
loves, he would prefer a French
bedstead on the mountain he hates.
An irritable man having been
disapppointed in his boots, threat-
, ened to cut up the shoemaker, but
j compromisd by swallowing a cobler.

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Congress." Bat the necessities oi
the Republican party spoke thus:
" If these Stated are treated as be-ing
in the Union, and if their Sena-tors
and Representative* are ad-mitted
into Congress from govern-ments
of their own formation, they
will add so much strength to the
Democratic party that there is
danger of their seizing the govern
ment and ousting us from power.''
Tlins the organic law of the land
and the necessities of a party were
at. war. Without hesitation" party
good was preferred, and the Con-stitution
went down. We were
treated as outside of the Union.—
Our State government was over-turned;
every civil officer, irom
the chief magistrate to the humblest
conservator of the peace was de-posed,
and for many months we
were absolutely without law—for
the absurd term " martial law"
means only the will of the com
mander of troops. Test oaths de-feated
our free representation in
Congress, and many penalties at-tached
to treason were visited upon
ns without the forms of a trial and
conviction which indeed might have
been a hazardous proceeding as the
Supreme Court was still somewhat
sensitive to the legal opinions of
the world. In the name of
the Union we were thrust out of
the Union; in the name of the
Constitution we were denied all
protection of the Constitution. In
this manner we existed until it
pleased the President of the United
States to restore ns to the Union,
deprived ot many of our rights, and
stripped of much of our legal pow-er.
But even this poor contrivance
of a poorer statemanship was not
sufficient for onr adversaries, inas-much
as it gave us a semblance of
Constitutional protection and left
our State government still iu the
hands of our legal and native boru
citizens who stubbornly refused to
affiliate with the dominant party.—
After due consideration the Repub-lican
party in Congress undertook
a second reconstruction, on its own
terms—certain amendments to the
Constitution having been adopted
by the aid of the States to lie re
constructed, then were enacted the
series of " reconstruction acts'' ac-knowledged
by their principal ad-vocates
to be outside of the Con-stitution
; again was the Union dis
solved; a second time were we
thrust out; once more were we sub-jected
to the government of the
bayonet: new qualifications of suf-frage
were established, new rules
of disfranchisement were imposed,
and the extraordinary spectacle was
exhibited to the world of a Consti
tution being foisted npon a free
people of one of the free American
States by the illegal suffrage of
some, aided by the illegal disfrau-ohisement
ot others, and all super-intended
and controlled by the
j bayonets of strangers ! By this
i burlesque upon law and free govern-ment,
the political character of the
Southern States was made to ac-cord,
perforce, with that ot the
dominant party ; and holding the
check of political disabilities upon
the leadiug men of their opponents
in their own hands, they fancied
they had secured to themselves a
long lease of power. The danger
being thus happily averted from
their party, and the Stale govern-ments
of the South having been
ot September, 1862, the send time! placed in the hands of their own
For the Patriot. '
The Snow Storm.
BY WHO t
The earth is frozen hard and deep
And the north-wind goes hissing
O'er bill and dale, with mighty aw
The billows tossing to the sky.
The heavens wear a aonihre hne.
That thicker grows and darker I
As the soft auow whirls out to Tit
And soon upon the earth is oast
"Tis beautiful—the falling snow-
As it descends BO pure and whi
A mantle robe for all below,
More radiaut than the dazzling '*
Hut see! the prattling rills are d;
Fast fettarail by an icy chain,
And can no longer onward run,
Leaping with joy unto the Bail
And hark! croueh'd ahiT'ring acu
thorne;
The hints sit chirping all the da
As if praying the piercing storm
In metcy soon would pass awa>
But heedless quite, it lushes on,
Striving hard to increase its ra
And show to all its bitter scorn,
That uonc may try its wrath t
But rage, and howl, and spit yi 'pite,
And do your utmost to destroi
The weak can well defy the mig
If God for them His power emV-Soon
piercing through the ch shall
shina
The sun, and with his genial .: •
Unbind the brooks, and make ti ouiuie
Liko marriage bells, as on tlili"w-
The bine bird, rohbiu and the Wi
Ttio first sweet messengers otTing,
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was ended. We then foud our '■
selves iii a peculiar cond.on, at-tributable
in a great nn-ast to the !
complex nature of the mtrnment
under which wo live. Tb: strug- j
gle was the result of thso uion ol j
the Southern people of th r right 1
to withdraw from the I ion by j
State action; it was inn .-mated
by ordinances of secession:iid was j
maintained by arms.]; was]
throughout au attempt, t escape
from the American Union ;■ estab-lished
by the Constitution When
that escape was preveute.by the
advene results of the war', natur-ally
supposed we were st: in the
Union and subject to the 1 institu-tion.
True, accordiug to tie theory
of our adversaries, indivi. als en
gaged in the so-called rcbi ion had
incurred the penalties ot treason,
lint it had occurred to no iiwyer to
suppose that the States composing
the Conlederacy had forfe:ed their
position as members of the Union,
or that they had acquired ijy defeat
the very object they had Bongbt to
attain by success. It was therefore
admitted by the undisputed logic
of all parties, that the insurgent
States were still at the close, as Bt
the beginning of the war, is the
Union,controlled by the Constito
tion, bound by all its obligations
and entitled to all its protections.—
In tact we were termed traitors by
reason of, and only by reason of,
the provisions of that instrument;
and but lor the fact that, us was
said, we owed an obedience to it,
which we could in nowise avoid by
secession, no one could have had
the hardihood to venture on the use
"f such a term toward us. Rut
when the war ended successfully
the sake ot peace in order that the
land may have rest. We were not,
too, without a reasonable hope that,
having done all which was required
of ns, and concurred in amending
the fundamental law in such a man
ner as the victors thought necessary
to secure all the results of the war,
we might have a return to strict
and exact Constitutional govern
ment, and putting behind us—as
we certainly were disposed to do—
the irregularities and bitter mem-ories
of the past, look forward to
better times in the future. Bitterly
were we deceived in that fond hope.
From that day to the present, the
armed hand of the Federal (JOT
ernment has never ceased to inter-fere,
or threaten to interfere, in the
domestic concerns of the Southern
were declared duly elected by the
supreme judicial tribunal of that
State ! Nor was this the first time
that this great outrage upon liberty
and law had been committed. This
may be preserving the public peace,
but it looks vastly more like a de-liberate
attempt to goad brave men
to declaration in order to shed
their blood, as well as to rob them
of their liberties. The real dis-turbers
of the peace in South Car
olina are the President and his
advisers; the real preservers of
the peace are the noble and chival-rous
Hampton and his long suffer-ing
and admiring countrymen.
There is not an honest man in
America to day but believes this.
Such are the results which have
flowed naturally from predeter-mined
violations of the constitu
tion, and the unwarranted assump
tion of power by the military arm.
Nor have these been the only, it
the worst, fruits of these depart-ures
from the legal paths. By this
unnatural process and schemes of
reconstruction, North Carolina was
placed in the hands of the design
ing and iguorant of onr people,
organized and led on by unscrupu-lous
and disreputable adventurers
from the slums of northern politics ;
a base and cormorant tribe of rep-tiles,
which seem to spring like
fungi from the rottenness and cor-ruption
of revolutionary times.—
The story of their short lived but
evil reign, of how they bankrupted
the State in character and means,
of how they overturned our time-honored
institutions, persecuted de-cency,
outlawed honor honesty, and
established fraud as a thing to be
worshipped in their stead, and how
they rioted in the tiampliug down
of "the most revered traditions of
our people, is one too well known
to be repeated here. Thank God,
it is ended at last! So far as North
Carolina is concerned, that role of
corruption aud calamity is num-bered
with the past, the lost and
damned ! At first the column of
true men which assaulted it was a
small and dispirited one. Not only
were the enemy strongly entrenched
behind the constitution and laws
of their own making and interpre-ting,
but the gigantic shadow of
federal power stood between them
and the righteous wrath of an op-pressed
people. By a dishonest
use of the sacred name of tin-
American Union, and by skillful
appeals to the prejudices excited
by war, they secured a large and
respectable following of many who
were not privy to their wicked de-signs
: numerous others were
tempted to join their ranks by the
blandishments of office and public
money, which was modestly des-ignated
"Accepting the situation."
But there was a remnant who bow
ed not the knee to Baal; there
were a few names left iu Sardis
who did not defile their garments.
Incessantly and courageously they
charged npon the enemy. On
every assnlt their spirits increased.
One by one, corrupt leaders fell or
fled : one by one, abuses were ex-posed
and remedied : one by one,
the different branches of the gov
ernment were torn from their con-trol
; now it was the legislature ;
now it was the representation in
Congress ; now a portion of the
judiciary ; whilst ever and anon a
corrupt county government would
be seized and overturned. To show
how the cause of right and justice
grew, in 18(53 we could give to our
candidate tor governor, Thomas S.
Lshe, one of our best and purest
men, but 73,694 votes: in 1872 we
gave Judge Merrimou 116,700 votes,
finally the day of great and decis
ive battle came. Aud I confess
that the proudest day in the history
of my life was the one on which I
was almost unanimously chosen as
the leader of the people of my na
tive state in that great light. A
majestic spectacle was presented
in the making ready. The mighty
host in battlo array, stretched from
where the restless waves of the
eastern sea beat their everlasting
retrain upon the white sanded shore
of Hatteras westward to where the
rugged Alpine peaks of the grand
old Alleghanies look down into the
chambers of the setting sun. Un-der
the pines of the. eastern plains,
beneath the oaks of the rolling mid-lands,
across the hills of Dan, in the
vallevs of the Yadkin, Catawba,
Broad and Cape Fear, on the sides
and summits of the mountains and
upon all their highland passes, they
stood. Like our German ancestors
the whole people went out to battle
the light ot subsequent history.— low violations of the laws of nature
But I was not ouly assailed with j All corruption, civil convulsion
BEWS5T.5 =a7=S5a -.!..~ -«•• -ftj-extraordinary
harshness and injus-tice
for what I did, but bitterly and
falsely for what I did not. The pro-lific
sources ol malevolence and
slander were exhausted in defaming
me. In response thereto the people
of the state, whose cause I served
and whose honor I upheld, have
sard by twenty-seven thousand
more votes tbau was ever before
that time ever cast for any man iu
our poli'ical history—not that every
thing I did was right, but that in
all things I faithfully performed
and endeavored to perform the du-ties
which they bad imposed upon
me. I hope my enemies are satis
fied with the verdict. Quite certaru
it is that I am. For the victory is
not only great, but was won by one
of the lairest, best matured aud
most peaceful elections ever held
iu our state or any other state. And
now cheered by this maguillcent
endorsement, I for the third time
enter npon the high duties assigued
by the constitution and laws of
North Carolina to her chief magis-trate.
In assuming once more the gov-ernment
of our native state, we are
reminded that with power there
comes responsibility. The deep
wouuds which the last fifteen years
of war and misgovcrnmeut have m-flicted
upon us still gape unhealed.
Our public credit has been almost
entirely destroyed ; our wealth has
been swept away; our educational
fund has been lost; unpatriotic
partisau statesmanship has iucreas
ed and embittered sectional feeling ;
and worse, perhaps, than all, the
raees composing our people, have
been set at enmity against each
other. Though it is is almost twelve
years since the war closed little has
been done by tho dominant party
to heal the jealousies of late ene-mies,
or to reconcile the antagonism
of the white and black races. Much
tudeed, on the contrary, has been
done to aggravate both evils. So
far as in ns lies, it is our bonnden
duty to remedy these things: to re-store
our public, credit, to promote
the regaiulng of our wealth, to edu-cate
the children of the state, to
mitigate sectional and race auimos
ities. In au especial manner should
it be our duty to disabuse the
minds of our black citizens of the
false impressions which unscrupu-lous
demagogues have instilled in-to
them that we intend, iu any way
to interfere with their chartered
rights. Let us convince them by
liberal legislation and kind treat-ment,
that we not only intend them
no wrong, but that we earnestly de-sire
their prosperity arid happiness;
that we constitute the party in this
government which, par excellence,
maintains and observes the consti
tution upon which their rights de-pend
: that their former owners are
and naturally should be, their best
friends; that as men of Christian
affections we never can forget Un-kindly
friendships which were form
ed between master and servant, be-tween
jealous protection and faith-ful
service; and finally that as men
of chivalry and honor we acorn to
deceive or oppress them because
they are weaker in numbers and
intelligence than we are. Their in-strumentality
in our oppression has
not been so much their fault as the
fault of those who controlled and
directed them. Let this fact never
be forgotten; that they served us.
they served our fathers and grand-fathers,
with fidelity and patience
always, and, for the most par', not
an unwilling slaves serve bated task
masters, but as humble friends and
dependents serve those whom they
love. When war was rampant over
the land and nearly all our able-bodied
men were absent in the ar-niv,
within the hearing of the
very guns which were roaring to
set* ihem free, the great body of
them remained quietly a: home, la-boring
iu our fields, supporting and
oaring for our women, children and
non combatants, with an affection
ate fidelity rarely surpassed by any
race. So, too, since their emanci-pation,
nine, out often of the mis
deeds committed by the blacks
against the whites can, in my opin-ion,
be traced to the instigation of
scoundrels of our owu color. They
have mostly done evil because they
were in evil bands. I firmly believe
that every semblance of personal
hostility toward the negro will pass
away, when hie almost unanimous
political hostility toward tho whites
shall have passed away. A wise
statesmanship already recognizes
him, under favorable cirenm
places them within our reach, and
renders it possible for them to be
acquired by those who seek them
with energy, industry and integri-ty.
These, when properly protected
will build up again the walls of our
political Zion. Above all, let ns
learn to use our great vietory with
moderation and justice, and strive
to wield the power which is this
day given us, as those who must
render BO account, both here and
hereafter.
the Republican party was thought
t:> be in danger. The excuse tor
this unconstitutional action is the
miserable pretence of preserving
the public peace.
It is a matter of decision by the
Supreme Court that the national
government cannot exercise mere
police power in the States : it is a
matter of history that there has
been no considerable breach of the
peace in any part of the country
except iu that which was ruled by
tho execrable creatures who were
Disced in power there by the aid of
the federal government; that when-ever
the reconstructed States have
thrown off this alien control there
is not the shadow of violence or
discord ; that the only semblance
of pretended discord existing in
any ol them, on which is founded
the President's excuse for the use
of soldiorv, is iu those three States
f"r the North, the situation became which alone remain governed by
embarrassing to our adversaries.—
ihe Union and the Constitution
DRUG TORE,
Merchant and
Ir line
' taper, Than
' V rlh and
1 bey cannot be
rtlMUIumt.
•HtM A CALL!
uion (be
which lm,i furnished such excellent
, battle cries in the day of strife,
were now decidedly in the way.—
The Constitution said: " These
States arc members of the Union ;
they did not get out, and indeed
could not, whilst my provisions
were observed; and being where
they always were, they are entitled
immediately to reform their own
governments and to send Senators
, aud Representatives to the national
the wives and maidens of the Oher-usci,
standing behind our array to
drive lorward the laggard and en
courage the timid, ready both to re-joice
iu our triumph and to inspire
hope in our despair. In these ranks
stood white haired age, sturdy man-hood
and lusty youth, the wisest,
best and bra\est out of a million
people. IIow could manhood go
backwards iu such a presence! No
campaign, perhaps, in our political
annals was fought with such anlent
ank universal enthusiasm. The zeal
of the people mounted up to a holy
sublimity. The stake was public
honesty and constitutional liberty.
That banner which by your com-mand,
my countrjmen, inscribed
with these sacred emblems. I bore
in trout of that host, sustained by
uiv able and gallant colleagues, has
been blessed by the most signal
victory ever achieved in our state.
The average vote for onr ticket is
about 123,500; so rapidly have the
triends of right increased. 1 win
not affect to deny that I am person-ally
gratified in an especial manner
by the result, to which I may be
pardoned for allnding. I or near y
Three years I was your governor in
the midst of the civil war
uuiwarK ui mv ~.».».
Labor, though it be never so igno
ant, if it be closely allied tocapit.
is not unfrequently the real strengt
Btances,an element not only of pub
lie wealth but of conservative pow
er in politics which may become a
cherished bulwark of the south.—
trnor-al
gth
of society. It also becomes onr es-pecial
dutv to look after the rights
and liberties of the people, without
which all material interests are as
the small dust in the balance. I oor
as we are we would be poorer still
if we had more wealth and less ol
libertv. The freedom and integrity
ot elections constitute the very cor-ner
stone of our representative gov
to be
and degeneracy, How naturally
from a failure on the part of a State
to observe the laws of its being,
jnst as heresies flow from a non-observance
of the text of the Script-ures.
This is the certain source of
all the confusion and threatened
evils that now distract the land.—
There is uo plainer er more import-ant
principle in our Constitutional
policy thau that of the right of the
States to control aud regulate their
owu domestic affairs within their
own borders; and this principle
has been selected for the most re-peated
aud persistent attack, be-cause
it is the great and almost only
barrier to centralization.
Its violation is also the parent of
nearly every dangerwhich threatens
the individual liberties of the citi-zeus.
For be it remembered that
uo power in this Union has ever
successfully defied the law and the
courts except Federal power; and
no power has ever attempted it ex-cept
when incited thereto and up-held
by Federal power. So long,
aud only so long, as the States are
left in the undisturbed exercise of
this domestic sovereignty, can the
public peace arid public freedom be
preserved. The governments of
the three States of South Carolina,
Florida and Louisiana, are now in
possession of men who were put
there by the unwarranted interfer-ence
of the central government;
they have been kept in power by
the same hand, in defiance of the
will ol the citizens; they consider
themselves responsible, not to the
people over whom they rule, but to
the real authors ot their power at
Washington. In every difficulty
they appeal not to their constituents
as in representative government,
but to a distant and alien tribunal.
They are mostly men of evil reputa-tion,
and honest people everywhere
look at their best deeds with justi-fiable
suspicion. Now it so hap-pens,
thai upon the electoral votes
of these three States depends the
choice of a chief magistrate for
over forty millions of people; prirnar
facie, a very decided majority for
the electors of Samuel J. Tilden
and Thomas A Ileudricks has been
given iu Florida, and a large ma-jority
of many thousands in Louisi-ana.
The returning boards of these
disputed States are tbe creatures
ol these federal-appointed State
governments. They owed fealty
not to the people, but to the powers
at Washington. Their duty was
to return the Republican electors
as duly elected. Mauy of them
were themselves candidates on the
same ticket, but they properly con-cluded
that modesty should not re-strain
them if honesty did not.—
By throwing out votes on the pre-tence
of fraud aud intimidation,
they created a majority for their
party electors and themselves. In
South Carolina, whilst there is
strong reason to believe that at
least iv part of the democratic elect-ors
have been chosen, and such was
loudly claimed to be the fact, an at-tempt
to investigate the matter by
a judicial inquiry was emothered
by fi deral bayonets. The returning
hoard refusing to obey the mandate
of the Supreme Court, its members
were imprisoned. Immedi-ately
a partisan Federal Judge
appeals upon the scene arid releases
these culprits, .vhilst some invisible
hand furnishes the money to pay
their lines. Grave charges of cor-ruption
and fraud are made against
all these returning boards, and it
is sale to say that the honest men
of the nation are not satisfied that
the thing was fairly done. Univer-sal
discontent prevails, and the
peace of thecouutry is endangered.
Tin- (pi.s1 ion simply comes to this :
it Mr. Tilden and Mr. Ileudricks
are fairly and honestly elected, shall
tbe will of tbe majority prevail, or
shall federal interference prevail I
Shall the Constitution and the laws
rule, or shall the Republican party-rule!
Shall the people elect a
President, or shall the praetorian
cohorts appoint an emperor! For
if our votes are thrown out of the
ballot boxes by interested partisan
returning boards, incited and sus-tained
by federal soldiers this time,
who shall say it will not be done
ni x; time, and for all time ! If so,
why go to the polls at all! Why
mock the hopes of freedom by
swearing onr officers to support an
instrument which is iu fact dead or
obsolete 1 I have said this much
in regard to this matter, because I
conceive our situation to be critical
in the extreme. Our only reliauce
now is upon the moderation and
patriotism of Congress. If the rep
resentatives of the people aud of
I he -states, shall not be able to find
a peaceful and constitutional solu-tion
of the difficulty in which the
country finds itself, one of two
things"will happen; either the ma-jority
of the American peoplo will
quietly submit to a great wrong in-volving
the destruction of their
Constitution, or there will be a te-soi
t to violence. Let us look things
in the face. _
The circumstances of North Caro-lina,
as well as of the Southern
States generally, imperatively de-mand
that she "should not be for-in
our hearts. As the mouth-piece
of more than a million people, I be-lieve
I can with propriety say for
them that North Carolina may con-fidently
be relied upon to sustain
that portion of the people of the
United States which shall convince
us that it is struggling for tbe
constitution, tbe laws, and public
justice, whieh are the life and the
soul of the American Union.
Pearls. « —
The guardian angel of life some-times
flies so high that it can not
be fseen ; but ie always looking
down upon us, and will soon hover
nearer to as.
Affliction is the wholesome soil
of virtue, where patienoe, honor,
Qg , sweet humanity,And calm fortitude
the one band we do not wieh it to , ta^e root and strongly flourish,
be understood that we are ready or 1 f
T( J-.00 wo
l
uld be pungsnt,bs brief
willing to embark in revolution : I [0T n '• w'th wordR M wlth
J'nn'
nor ou the other that we are willing ! l*ams-ths more they are conden«
to quietly submit to any outrage i edLthe deePer the""
that physical force directed by par-1
ty zeal may see fit to impose ; tbe 1
one course tending to provoke vio-lence
aud the other to invite oppres
sion. We do wish it understood
that we will follow the lead of the
constitutional men of the north.—
Show us the law and it sufficeth us.
Law is, and in all ages has been,
tbe shield of tbe weak, tbe refuge
of the oppressed, the parent of lib-erty,
and national life. We earn
estly desire to stand by it. Tru
ly the constitution of our country is
the ark of the covenaut of our lib-erties,
which our forefathers made
for themselves and their children.
When it is properly enthroned in
the hearts of our people its preseuce
is a blessing arid a protection ; when
dishonored and put away calamity
and confusion inevitably ensue. Our
ouly possible safety is to bring it
back among us and re-establish its
altars. When the ark of the coven-ant
of the Lord was taken captive
from Israel into strange lands, it
overthrew the image of the false
god in whose temple it was placed,
and smote his worshippers round
about with a terrible slaughter.—
The priest of Dagon, to escape its
vengeance sent it away upon a new
cart, drawu by kine upon whose
necks no yoke had come, which YViio is the clerk that is of the
without any but the guidance of 1 most value to to his employer; the
the God whose covenant they bore, 0ne who will secure hightes't wages,
took the way of Beth-Shemisb, low- and retain his position when hard
ing as they went, aud turning j times come and some have to be
neither to the right hand nor to the dismissed! 1 will tell you who.
left. The harvesters in the valleys The clerk who is honest and truth
of Judah, pausing amidst their gol f,1|i aud is willing to take hold and
den sheaves, lifted up their eyes ,io anything in tho store to help
and rejoiced to see the approach of, along. The one who keeps his
that symbol of the preseuce and fa- stock np u the best shape, is gen-
Hearts may be attracted by as-sumed
qualities, but the affections
are only to be fixed by those that
are real.
Nature often enshrines gallant
and noble hearts in weak bosoms—
oftenest, God bless her ! in the fe-male
breast.
The blush is nature's alarm at the
approach of sin, and her testimony
to the dignity of virtue.
No one who holds the power of
granting aid to the worthy poor,can
refuse it without guilt.
For every sort of suffering, save
that of sin, there is sleep provided
by a gracious Providence.
A miser grows rich by seeming
poor ; an extravagant person grows
poor by seeming rich.
Men resemble the gods in noth-ing
so much as in doing good to
their fellow creatures.
Never marry but for love; bnt see
that thou lovest that which is lova-able.
What is becoming is honorable,
and what is honorable is becoming.
When anger rises, think ot the
consequences.
It is difficult to grow old grace
fully.
A Clerk.
vor of their God. And though it
journeyed in triumph through the
laud whose people received it with
hosannas, yet did many perish who
dared to lay rash and prorane hands
upon it.
With us in North Carolina,
though the national trouble is be-tlemauly
and polite to customers,
and by his faithfulness, honor and
integrity, draws new customers,
and thereby sells the most goods.
The one who takes a lively interest
in his employer's welfare, aud is
careful that nothing goes to waste.
The one who when customers are
vondour means of control, we can out is busy putting up goods and
at least see that the ark is kept at arrauging them in a neat aud tasty-home
and duly honored. In 1870 manner so that the store will look
liberty was assailed in North Caro pleasant and inviting. The one
liua, and tho ark was carried away w|,0 will wait ou a little child as
captive. Each branch of the state carefully and pleasantly as he will
government was consenting thereto; ou a president, and has a kind word
the legislature and the executive for all. The ono who loves his busi-by
direct and overt action, and the „m better than saloons. The oue
the judicial by uou action. But in wuo j8 temperate, and does not
due time Dagou was overturned, swear or use coarse and vulgarian
ernment. When, they cas,^ _. ^^^^ More than all
reconstruction-carpet baggers, and
whose electoral votes happen to be
necessary to secure the supremacy
of the republican party once more.
Within the last thirty days, the
world hps seen wonder and disgust,
the togidatureiof a matar SMte •^m^'of\ne"clvn war In that
assembled to find its capitol fllle tnem t ,,uty con.-
witfa Ueited States soldiers, and capacity per|0rmance of
sentinels with fixed bayonet,, guard- pe«Jd »«^°0B8 and unpleasan,
iugthedoorsof nslial ,wh.h a many gr^ rf ^
sergeant decided upon the qualifi
cations and election of members,
refusing admission to those who
, were, no
rinnht fairly open to hostile critt-im%
l£U when looked at in
perfectly fair and unforced,
shed and anarchy are near at hand.
We are now approaching a crisis in
the fate of this country winch all
honest men should honestly face.
No one, I presume, doubts the
maxim that to preserve the bless
ings of libertv we should have fre-quent
recurrence to the first prin-ciples
of our Constitution. They
are the embodiment of the wisdom
of our ancestors eliminated, tested
and approved by their experience
of many hundreds of years. So
well have thev become established
as the organic law of politics, and
so perfectly do they indicate the
normal condition of a free State.
that any departure therefrom is
followed, sooner or later, by results
things else, except good govern-
, we need peace. In common
with the Constitutional party in the
North, we think we have fairly
elected our candidate for President.
Upon that party and not upon our
selves devolves the propriety aud
the doty of taking tho needed steps
toward'seenring the rights of the
majority. But let it not be sup
posed that we are indifferent to
their action, or decliue to come to
the front because less entitled to do
so than others.
I Blasted as we have been by the
desolation of war; purged of rash
DOBS by the fires of revolution, and
sobered both by public calamity
and private sorrow as wehave been,
the people rose as the waves of the
sea rise before the tempest, and
brought back their ark with tri-umph
arid rejoicing. Law once
more reigned in North Carolina,
and only the stump of Dagon was
left unto him. And whither should
the kine draw the ark of the peo-ple's
liberty if not into the borders
ol North Carolina, " a fortress form-ed
for freedom'!) hands." Where
should the geuius of liberty guide
them if not here ! It was on the
soil of North Carolina that the foot
of the first English colonist was
planted in America, aud the soli-tudes
ot her forests first of all heard
the glorious tongue of Shakepeare
aud of Milton ; it was in NorMi Car-that
tbe first blood was shed in be-half
of American liberty ; it was in
North Carolina that the firbt decla-ration
of independence was promul-gated
against the power of the Brit-ish
Empire; North Carolina's pro
vincial congress, first of all, in-structed
her delegates to unite iu a
national declaration of indepen-dence
: it was North Carolina who
with oue other state to essist her,
refused to agree to a provision in
the American constitution permit-ting
Cougress in any emergency to
suspend the privileges of the great
writ of human liberty ; it was in
North Carolina, aud I believe only
in North Carolina, that in the mid«t
of the greatest civil war of modern
times, when forty millions of peo-ple
were engaged in desperate
strife, amid the gleaming ot bayo-nets,
the roaring of cannon, the
thunder of charging squadrons and
the light of bnruing cities, the civil
power maintained its supremacy
over the military, the judge was
obeyed. Inter arma audiebantur
leges.
North Carolina of to-day is the
lineal decendant of the North Caro-lina
of the past. Her sons and
daughters are the legitimate heirs
of this glorious heritage. With
such a record I think all who sturg-gle
for liberty and law throughout
the American Union may rest well
assured of the sympathy and sup
port of North Carolina.
Having briefly glanced at the po-litical
condition of our state and her
relations to the federai government
—which at present have such an
absorbing interest for as all—I will
defer speaking of our material
home interest and the many sug-gestions
I shall desire to make con-cerning
our domestic welfare, until
I shall have the honor of officially
communicating with the general as-sembly.
In conclusion, my countrymen
guage. I tell you sueh a clerk is a
jewel, and uot have to spend his
time hunting for a uew situation
every year. We want such clerks ;
railroads companies want them ; re-tail
stores and everybody who has
to hire wants them, and the supply
of this kind will never be iu excess
ot the demaud.
It is very certain that in Wash-ington
a powerful reaction has ta
ken place. The revolutionists and
conspirators are still plotting and
cursing, but the sober, thoughtful
men of the. Republican party have
come to the conclusion that it is
about time for Grant, (.'handler,
Cameron & Co. to halt. The ITet
aid ou the litltl inst. telegraphed the
inquiry to its Washington corres
poiideuts " What means the Radical
paniral WtukingUmV The reply
given by the Washington I'nion is
this:
"AM hope and scheme oi illegal,
unconstitutional method have fail-ed
and are abandoned. The Herald
haj contributed to the true, legal,
honest result now beyond doubt.
Mi. Bennett may have patriotic
satisfaction iu it, and in this one
assurance to him, that the'•Radical
panic"' he has hear of is simply the
resolutiou of the able anil patriotic
and honest leaders of the Republi-can
party to accept the situation to
defeud the Constitution, to bear
true allegiauce to the Republic."--
Wilminyton Star.
The Chicago Inter-Oveah is a fair
specimen sheet 0 f Northwestern
Radicalism. It would afford, no
doubt, the editors ol that very de-testable
sheet the most exquisite
satisfaction to ^-e every dei 1 ntman
and woman i n the South either
burned, hanged or murdered. Read
this:
'Uaugiug a few traitors and re-solving
tho Southern States into
territories agaiu until such time as
their white liners, bulldozers and
rille clubs are repudiated, would be
judicious steps toward a lasting
peace." __^___^^^^
A wise ruler is better than a race
horse; the latter makes good time j
the former, good times.
An Irish monk once called on his
congregation to thank God that
death had been placed at the end
of life insteail of the middle.
Whore should one always expect
to find a bountiful supply of the
milk of human kindness ! Withiu
permit me to express how heartily i the pale of Odd Fellowship.
,1 man fond of antitheses says
;sjs8;;swbS ^^0.». -ove * »»«
I participate in the general joy
which this aupicious occasion in-spires.
I humbly trust in God that
this day, which is so proud a one
for us all, may prove the beginning
of a happier and a better one for
our people. Thanking Him sincer
ely t'oi His mercies towards us,
us take courage to work out
fruition of our pleasing hopes.
Let us remember that good gov- Hitch up beauty and virtue to-ernment
confers not of itself wealth gether and you have the best Mam
prosperity aud happiness, but only , in the world.
rather than a cot iu the valley be
loves, he would prefer a French
bedstead on the mountain he hates.
An irritable man having been
disapppointed in his boots, threat-
, ened to cut up the shoemaker, but
j compromisd by swallowing a cobler.